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In Consumed: Motorola H500 Bluetooth Headset: The gizmo that overcame the Star Trek factor.
Here’s how new tech innovations are supposed to spread: First, clever young people adopt them, because that’s what clever young people are hard-wired to do. Later, everybody else catches on, and eventually even the middle-aged golf-course guy gets it. Think of text messaging or MP3 players. Now think of Bluetooth-enabled wireless-phone headsets. They sound pretty techie, and according to a recent report by Strategy Analytics, a research-and-consulting firm, sales of Bluetooth headsets nearly tripled in 2005, to 33 million units around the world. But this time the pattern looks a little different: Golf Course Guy has led the way.
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I find that I now have to check if the person talking to themselves is schizo, or merely on the phone.